Understanding Pornographic Fiction [electronic resource] : Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception /
Nussbaum, Charles.author.
This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface.-Chapter 1: The Protestant Ethic and Modern Western Pornographic Fiction -- Chapter 2: Literary Discourse and Pragmatic Implicature -- Chapter 3: Pornographic Fiction, Implicature, and Imaginative Resistance -- Chapter 4: Pornographic Fiction and Personal Integrity. Select Bibliography .
This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Literature—Philosophy.
Sexual behavior.
Sexual psychology.
Aesthetics.
Ethics.
Philosophy of Language.
Literary Theory.
Sexual Behavior.
Aesthetics.
Ethics.